GAJ already makes use of both Collect all matches for the search criteria using Tracker. Then take the URIS of the files targeted by the "search criteria" and ask zeitgeist to sort them for you based on populartiy or recency. Cheers Seif
2010/2/9 Debarshi Ray <[email protected]> > I have spent some time thinking how to integrate both Tracker and > Zeitgeist in Solang [1] and I am repeatedly hitting the wall when > trying to figure out a way to abstract out accesses to two different > databases. I am going to use Solang to describe my problem but I > suspect this would be true to some extent for some other applications > as well. > > In Solang whenever we try to search (based on free text or URIs, tags, > Exif meta-data) we put the criteria in a search manager which > generates the SPARQL query and retrieves a list of photos from > Tracker. You can find a bit more in the FOSDEM slides [2]. Now it > would be only too natural to allow the user to search for the most > recent photos and such in the same way she would initiate a search > based on the other criteria. But this information, as far as I > understand, is present in Zeitgeist. So the current approach of just > iterating over all the criteria in the search manager and creating a > SPARQL query won't really work if all the criteria are divided into > Tracker and Zeitgeist. > > Ofcourse the UI can be divided into "search Tracker" and "search > Zeitgeist" but might be a bad thing to do. After all the user does not > really care. :-) > > So any suggestions? I am out of ideas at the moment. > > Thanks, > Debarshi > > [1] http://projects.gnome.org/solang/ > [2] http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/solang-fosdem.pdf > -- > One reason that life is complex is that it has a real part and an > imaginary part. > -- Andrew Koenig > _______________________________________________ > tracker-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list > >
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